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<h1 align="center"><span class="pagetitle">XHTML 1.1</span><br>
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     <dt><b class="subheading">Editors:</b> Murray Altheim, Shane McCarron
     <dt><b class="subheading">Specifications</b>
         <dd>Documentation - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/</a>
         <dd>DTD - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/xhtml11_dtd.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/xhtml11_dtd.html</a>
     <dt><b class="subheading">Timeline:</b>
         <dd>- XHTML 1.1 first working draft released - September, 1999
         <dd>- XHTML 1.1 becomes W3C Proposed Recommendation - April, 2001
         <dd>- XHTML 1.1 becomes W3C Recommendation - May, 2001
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So where do we go from here? What is next for XHTML?
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XHTML 1.1 is essetially the "strict" DTD from XHTML 1.0...It drops all the deprecated 
elements and attributes from XHTML 1.0, and makes a few other tweaks (eg: common 
LANG attribute dropped in favor of "xml:lang", and the addition of the "RUBY" element 
module.) XHTML 1.1 is designed to be strongly geared toward the document structure, 
with presentation details to be left to style sheets.
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Frankly, XHTML 1.1 may be a little ambitious for many authors at the current 
stage of browser development, but it is definitely a milepost of where web 
authoring has been attempting to head for many years: a clear separation between
document structure and appearance. XHTML 1.1 finally declares that the time for
this separation has come.
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